Morning Break: Obamacare Site Asks for Second Chance

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Although it might not be a fair comparison to the troubled government site, three computer programmers took only 3 days to create a website to help people navigate their health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act, CNN reports.

The WHO said that more than 7 million more healthcare workers are needed to meet the demand for essential health services around the world, as reported by FierceHealthcare.

On the Primary Care Progress blog, Kevin Campbell, MD, talks about the importance of being able to work well in teams in medicine.

Workers for the Spokane Regional Health District in eastern Washington track down and contact the sexual partners of patients infected with gonorrhea, with the hope of stemming the spread of the increasingly hard-to-treat infection.

Sarepta Therapeutics' drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, eteplirsen, won't be coming to market anytime soon. The FDA has told the company that the outcome measures used in previous and ongoing trials don't appear valid.

Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the central Philippines, has been deemed a category 3 disaster -- the most serious classification -- by the World Health Organization. The most immediate health concerns, one WHO doctor said, are tetanus and infections from untreated injuries.

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